List of animals of Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between the states of New York and Connecticut. It is diverse and serves as a breeding ground to many different types of marine animal species; the following is a list of said species by scientific and/or common name. Marine mammals are excluded; see List of mammals of New York for the corresponding species.

Sponges (Porifera)

Comb jellies (Ctenophora)

Jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)

Corals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea and Scleractinia)

Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria)

Crustaceans (Arthropoda: Crustacea)

True crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)

Other decapods

Mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda)

Horseshoe crabs (Arthropoda: Xiphosura)

Cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)

Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

Littorinimorpha

This group includes filter feeders, omnivores, and predatory sea snails.

Neogastropoda

Most neogastropods are predatory sea snails.

Ptenoglossa

Bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

Pteriomorphia

These filter feeders are either mobile or permanently attached to a substrate.

Heterodonta

These filter feeders are mostly burrowers.

Echinoderms (Echinodermata)

Sea urchins (Echinoidea)

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea)

Starfish (Asteroidea)

Brittle stars (Ophiuroidea)

Sea squirts (Chordata: Tunicata)

Cartilaginous fish (Chordata: Chondrichthyes)

Sharks (Selachimorpha)

Resident sharks

Vagrant sharks

Skates and rays (Batoidea)

Bony fish (Chordata: Osteichthyes)

Eels (Anguilliformes)

Gadiformes

Seahorses and pipefishes (Syngnathiformes)

Jacks (Carangiformes: Carangidae)

Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes)

Scorpaeniformes

Wrasses (Labriformes: Labridae)

Perciformes

Drums (Sciaenidae)

Other Perciformes

Anglerfish (Lophiiformes)

Tetraodontiformes

All of the animals in this category are summer visitors, who migrate northwards from warmer waters in the south.

Miscellaneous Percomorpha

Gulf Stream strays

Mainly all the animals in this category are juveniles carried via the Gulf Stream to the sound and end up dying when the water temperature cools.

References

  1. ^ Nicol, William L.; Reisman, Howard M. (1976). "Ecology of the Boring Sponge (Cliona celata) at Gardiner's Island, New York". Chesapeake Science. 17 (1): 1. Bibcode:1976CpkSc..17....1N. doi:10.2307/1350571. ISSN 0009-3262. JSTOR 1350571.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Neverita duplicata (Say, 1822)".
  3. ^ "Connecticut Sea Grant | UConn". seagrant.uconn.edu. Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

Further reading

  • Lynch, Patrick (2017). A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife. Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. All. ISBN 978-0300220353.
  • Weiss, Howard (1995). Marine Animals of Southern New England and New York. Connecticut: Bulletin. pp. All. ISBN 0-942081-06-4.
  • "NOAA Fish Watch". NOAA Fish Watch.
  • "Fish". ARKIVE. Archived from the original on February 5, 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.